A new survey of Harvard’s faculty & staff shows they’re even more reluctant to discuss controversial issues with colleagues than they are with students. Dissident faculty & staff members know their colleagues are more close-minded than students whose minds they work to close.

“Everything good is costly, and the development of character is one of the most costly of all” —Sheldon Kopp

Meanwhile those of us in Australia get encounters with red belly black snakes on our long walks instead.

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I think it's in the first volume of Democracy in America Tocqueville says that democracies are stable, but every election cycle work themselves up into a periodic state of frenzied ecstasy channelled by political institutions, unlike in any other regime.

It seems to me that external feedback is critical to reality-check your self-reflection. I often side-eye people who focus on self-awareness, as to some it can mean navel-gazing until a predetermined conclusion has been justified. Anyway, social reality testing your

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Firstly, I agree. Secondly, it reminds me of this book, which just arrived.

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Can't wait for middle and youngest daughters to bring their own stereotypes to the conversation & claim trauma. Then we all duke it out over which birth position is most difficult. No one can adjudicate & we can't objectively tell. Everyone goes to therapy forever for being born.

When I read an essay on The App from a clever woman younger than me I am left feeling that everything I'm interested in is already old. Every thought is a decade too late. I don't know what I was doing when you were all reading anguished confessional essays & scrolling Tumblr.

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Just learned that girls outperform boys in GPA but not on standardised tests. In shambles over grade inflation.

My partner has a higher IQ than me, but my GPA was higher in the same course. Should we expect to see correlations between IQ and academic performance weaken, clouded by the effect of lenient female marking (to say nothing of potential bias in marking)?

Something that isn't talked about often enough. Many environmental influence/parenting studies are overconfident on the extent of environmental effect and fail to note the same genes causing sensitivity to enviro factors in kids are also the same ones driving parent behaviour.

Perhaps the reliance on government is preferred because it allows for further abstraction from the brutal realities of unrelenting uncertainty which are so hostile to our psychology.

There is something so galling about reading criticism of a person's lack of human depth that has been generated by AI.

I think this is true, but I also think it applies to women; not a quest but a problem. We each of us need a problem to face, a meaningful obstacle to overcome. We seem to descend into a helpless sort of miserable navel-gazing without it.